"Mnhhhh"
"Ahhhh!"
"Nhhhhh!"
"Excuse me, are you Lucy?"
After disappearing from the void, Kaito reappeared in a room that was almost completely normal.
The normal part came from the fact that it didn't seem supernatural at all and instead looked ordinary, with furniture, beds, and other human things.
And the almost part came from the fact that there were three women moaning on the bed for some reason.
Looking at them, each of the three was a beauty. Coincidentally, two had pink hair and one had red hair.
Though the most noticeable part was that all three were extremely sensual, with hourglass figures, thick thighs, wide hips, and large breasts.
Anyone seeing them would think someone took the sexiest characters from three different works and put them together.
Of course, Kaito wasn't particularly interested in that. He had long since gotten used to seeing beautiful women every day.
Instead, he tried to figure out what was going on.
The woman on the right with long pink hair was Chika. Based on that, the most likely conclusion was that they were in Chika's trial, which Kaito made the extremely bold assumption of being the sin of lust.
Then there was the girl in the center, with large breasts, red hair, and twin tails. Kaito immediately recognized her as Naruse Mio.
"And since the real world is mostly made up of normal anime, then it's most likely that Mio isn't another trial participant, but that we're directly in the world of Shinmai Maou no Testament.
A good choice for a lust trial," Kaito analyzed.
As for the girl on the left, short pink hair and a figure much more inclined toward sexiness than the other two, Kaito recognized her, but since she wasn't from this world, he assumed she must be another participant.
Knowing where he was, the next thing to figure out was why he was there.
All three girls had an obvious mark on their necks. It was the master–slave contract mark that Mio and Basara had in the anime, which, because it was made by Maria, a succubus, had been modified into an extremely perverted curse.
It was somewhat complicated, but in short, when the curse activated, it punished the user in such a way that the other party in the contract had to make it appear several times.
"So Chika has that curse, though I still don't know why."
Finally, the moment he arrived, a voice came through a microphone asking if he was "Lucy", a nickname he never actually used but which could apply because of his nickname Lucifer. Chika must have used it to hide his identity.
Then Chika told someone she would come right before her curse exploded, so most likely she had summoned him to help her with the curse.
With the situation more or less figured out, Kaito finally answered the voice coming from the microphone.
"I'm Lucy" he confirmed.
But the voice on the other side didn't sound convinced.
"...You took way too long to answer. Are you sure you're Lucy, Chika's boss?" the voice asked suspiciously.
"I am. Now tell me what's happening here."
"Mmm, I'm not sure."
"Just tell me."
"Fine, tell me something only Chika's boss would know" said the voice on the other side, and from the playful tone Kaito couldn't tell whether she genuinely didn't believe him or was simply messing around.
"Chika is an idiot and a pervert" Kaito said, uninterested in playing along.
"Jajaja, what's that? I've known Chika for a week and even I know that. Tell me a secret."
"Then just tell me what you want to know" Kaito replied, starting to get irritated.
"So, who does Chika like?"
"Me" Kaito answered without hesitation.
"Incorrect. The person she likes is called Kaito. Definitely not her boss."
"Yes, that's my other name."
"Mmmm, suspicious" the voice sounded doubtful. "Did you only say that after I said it? Why would you have two names? Also, one sounds Japanese and the other European."
"One is my human name and the other is my demon name."
"Eh? You're a demon? I don't know… you don't really sound like one" said the voice, stretching her words in a teasing tone.
"Alright, you're starting to annoy me."
"Eh?"
From the girl's voice, Kaito had already realized she was just messing with him, so he decided to go find her and stop wasting time.
Curiously, what he thought was a normal room wasn't normal from the outside. The walls and doors seemed to be made of some kind of supernatural metal.
After easily passing through them and searching the house, Kaito arrived at another nearby room where a short girl with long silver hair and horns was watching several monitors at once while speaking through a microphone.
"Hey, you."
"Hyaaa, how did you get here?!" she turned around in surprise.
"I walked through the walls and got here. Now, Maria, start talking before I get even more annoyed" Kaito said while placing a hand on the girl's head.
Even though Kaito didn't use much strength, no matter how much Maria tried, she couldn't move her head even a centimeter. She realized she had no way to escape.
"Haha, as expected from someone who just walked through Hero Metal made to stop demons" she laughed nervously.
"Talk."
"I'm talking, I'm talking, don't get mad.
So, Chika is really bad at lying, so figuring out that the person she likes and her boss are the same person wasn't difficult.
Chika said you're very wise and would already know about the curse, so there's no need to explain that part.
Apparently both Chika and Hakari have some kind of mission. I'm not sure. But apparently they can ask for help from their 'demon king'. I don't know, Hakari has no idea and Chika is terrible at explaining things."
'System'
[Those inside the sin trial may request help from the Demon King.
However, if they do, the Demon King won't only have to complete their mission but also an additional mission, which requires a great deal of trust between them]
"So then, why do they have the curse?"
"I don't know, I swear. For some reason both of them showed up with my curse even though I never gave it to them" Maria said with tears forming in her eyes.
"Most likely it's part of the trial. Makes sense since this is a trial of lust" Kaito analyzed.
"Alright, I'm going to help her" he finally said, letting go of Maria.
"Oww, oww, oww" Maria rubbed her head for a few seconds before speaking. "Wait, since quite a bit of time passed after the curse activated, you'll probably have to be pretty intense" she explained.
Kaito looked at her with suspicion and disbelief.
"Seriously? So that's why you were delaying me?"
"A-ahaha, what are you talking about?" Maria laughed nervously again.
"Anything else before I leave?"
"Yeah, Mio and Hakari, can you help them too?" Maria asked.
"You want me to grope your sister and some stranger?" Kaito asked with one eyebrow raised.
"Well, when you put it that way it sounds a little… perverted. There's no other choice. Hakari refused to call her demon king saying she doesn't know him, and Mio doesn't know anyone either. Don't worry, I got permission from both of them."
"Alright, leave it to me" Kaito finally said.
But before leaving, he stopped after realizing something, turned around, and destroyed all the computers in the room with one attack.
"W-what? My computers, how am I supposed to watch now?!" Maria complained.
"You're not watching."
"What? It's my curse. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't get to enjoy this harem situation. You owe me. Thanks to me you get to touch three huge-breasted beauties at once" Maria complained dramatically.
"Can you shut up? How can you yell things like that?" Kaito said, appearing behind her and covering her mouth.
Even though this was another world and the house was huge, he'd still be embarrassed if the neighbors heard all the crazy things this perverted girl was saying.
"No I don't want to, how can you not let me watch? Ah, I get it now, you want me to participate too, right? I see how it is. As expected of a pervert with multiple wives, three huge-breasted women weren't enough for you, so now you're going after me too, Wow!."
Tired of her perverted rambling, Kaito finally decided to ignore her and leave her there muttering to herself.
Honestly, Kaito thought some characters were lucky he already knew them beforehand, otherwise they'd just be treated as complete lunatics or at least badly misunderstood.
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